NYPD says #WeHearYou as cop avoids charges; tweet promptly backfires

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The New York Police Department was hit with a barrage of criticism on Wednesday after its community affairs account sent a seemingly tone-deaf tweet following a grand jury's decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

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The tweet was sent from the account of Joanne Jaffe, chief of the NYPD's Community Affairs Bureau. It came just moments after news broke that a Staten Island grand jury had decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Garner, a 43-year-old black man who died in July after being placed in a chokehold. Read more...

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